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With their fall sports seasons just concluded, Harvard's football and soccer teams met yesterday to elect captains for next year. The winners were Steve Kaseta and Fred Herold...
More than Ford, Carter is open to new ideas, to taking a fresh look at old problems. The President-elect has often said that he holds a conservative respect for personal initiative and fiscal prudence, as well as a liberal dedication to helping those left behind in a competitive society. In an election characterized less by apathy than by indecision, that may well be what the voters are saying they want in a President...
...first persons to confer with President-elect Jimmy Carter was Jack Watson, a wiry 38-year-old former Marine whom few had even heard about in the campaign just ended. Yet he had been in charge of one of the matters on which Carter placed the highest priority...
...almost natural last May that Carter would ask Watson to direct his ambitious plans for the transfer of power. When Watson sent his first memorandum, Carter wrote across the top of it: "Proceed and be bold." Watson really liked that. And Carter knew his man. As the President-elect's principal in Washington for the next ten weeks-and probably a lot longer-the bold Jack Watson will certainly take the boss's advice...
...This country doesn't elect saints to the U.S. Congress," cried a union supporter of Democratic Congressman Don Riegle, 38. Michigan voters accepted that easily supportable claim. Riegle, whose tape-recorded pillow talk with an unpaid former woman staffer highlighted the campaign (TIME, Nov. 1), will succeed the retiring Philip Hart when the Senate convenes next January. For a time, the incident that surfaced in the anti-Riegle Detroit News seemed to tip the election in the direction of Republican Congressman Marvin Esch...